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What is a Blog?
Q: Not to ask a ridiculously obvious question, but what is a
blog? And what's the future of blogs and blogging?
A: By a remarkable coincidence, Steven Streight, aka Vaspers
the Grate, just asked me the very same questions about the
definition of blogs on his own site, so rather than write
something new, I'm just going to quote what I wrote for him:
What is your definition of a "blog"?
A blog isn't what everyone thinks it is.
In fact, on this very page, you have a pile of definitions of
blogs that I disagree with.
Why?
Because everyone likes to focus on the *presentation* of
information and blogs are really all about the *management* of
information.
Here's what I mean: if you think that a blog is a web site
characterized by frequent articles displayed in chronological
order, typically with timestamps, a la a journal or diary, you're
missing the forest for the trees.
Weblogs, instead, are just the facade that we see of
considerably more powerful content management systems that really
revolutionize the maintenance of Websites.
Look at it this way: if you're not using a blog to help manage
your site, when was the last time you added any new content or
revised an existing page?
When you do add content, do you make sure to link it into all
the other pages on your site, including your sitemap?
Sure, there are other software solutions for managing Web
sites, but none that are as flexible, easy, inexpensive, and
SEO-friendly as weblogs.
What is the future of blogs?
Having said that, I think that blogs are going to go the way
of the dinosaur, evolving from an animal we spot into the
petroleum we use to fuel our journeys, without giving an iota of
thought to the source of the petroleum.
It's not that blogs aren't cool and interesting, but just as
geeks used to learn PostScript so they could work with printers
and display systems and now...
...have no idea that PostScript is the underlying language of
many devices, so we'll find that we can focus on our sites, how
the information is displayed and how we utilize it for our
needs.
After all, the bottom line is the same as it was before the
blogging "phenomenon":
How do you find the best, most useful and valuable information
on the Internet for any given question, problem or query?
Dave Taylor is an internationally recognized expert on
business and technical topics and is the author of 18 different
books and thousands of magazine articles. His Q&A Web site is
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/
MORE RESOURCES updated Thu. April / 25 / 2024
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